Ageing: Opportunity for a medicine in search for goals

Authors

  • Pierre Boitte

Abstract

Ageing and geriatric care constitute two aspects (collective and individual) of the same social and cultural reality, and should motivate medicine towards a healthy transformation of its practice, therefore becoming more aware of its own limitations and goals. Also becoming more appropriate for convincing society to accept ageing; a society which willingly would delegate medicine certain social and political tasks, even though they are not medical issues. This is the main idea sustained in this text.

Keywords:

Ageing, geriatric care, gerontology, geriatrics, older people.

Author Biography

Pierre Boitte

Sociólogo, Filósofo y Doctor en Salud Pública. Profesor Facultés Universitaires de Notre-Dame de la Paix, Belgique; Profesor Investigador Université Catholique de Lille, France y Consultor de Ética de Clinique Saint-Pierre d'Ottignies, Belgique.